Lyrics to
Just What I Needed

This version of Just What I Needed was released by The Cars in 1978.

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i don’t mind you coming here
and wasting all my time
’cause when you’re standing oh so near
i kinda lose my mind
it’s not the perfume that you wear
it’s not the ribbons in your hair
i don’t mind you coming here
and wasting all my time
i don’t mind you hanging out
and talking in your sleep
it doesn’t matter where you’ve been
as long as it was deep
you always knew to wear it well
you look so fancy i can tell
i don’t mind you hanging out
and talking in your sleep
i guess you’re just what i needed
i needed someone to feed
i guess guess you’re just what i needed
i needed someone to bleed

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The Cars has released many songs over the years besides Just What I Needed. The Cars released songs from 1978 to 1987 spanning across albums like The Cars, Candy-O, Panorama, Shake It Up, Heartbeat City, and Door To Door. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Cars.

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About Lyrics and Just What I Needed by The Cars

When you decide to study the lyrics to Just What I Needed, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Cars. Some of the lyrics to Just What I Needed have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Cars and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Just What I Needed if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Just What I Needed" means the words set to the music of Just What I Needed, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cars. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Just What I Needed and the lyrics to Just What I Needed are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cars who came here looking just for the lyrics to Just What I Needed, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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